Author(s)

Hiroaki Kajiyama, Kiyosumi Shibata, Mika Mizuno, Eiko Yamamoto, Michiyasu Kawai, Tetsuro Nagasaka, Fumitaka Kikkawa

Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Health Science, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Toyohashi Municipal Hospital, Toyohashi, Japan.

Background: To examine the difference in the survival of patients with recurrent ovarian cancer who received fertility-sparing surgery (FSS) and those receiving radical surgery. Methods: Clinicopathologic data on a total of 90 patients with stage I recurrent ovarian cancer collected under the central pathological review system were subjected to survival analyses. Patients were divided into 2 groups: 1) FSS (N = 11), 2) Radical (N = 79). Results: Five-year overall survival rates of patients in the two groups were as follows: 40.8% (FSS)/44.2% (Radical), respectively. There was no significant difference in overall survival among the groups (P = 0.887). Additionally, three-year postrecurrence survival rates of patients in the two groups were 24.8% (FSS) and 25.3% (Radical) (P = 0.730). Furthermore, we accumulated 137 patients {FSS (N = 58), Radical group (N = 79)} with stage I recurrent ovarian cancer from the current study and six representative reports in the literature. Patients who experienced recurrence in the remaining ovary alone (FSS) showed a more favorable prognosis than those who had extra-ovarian site recurrence (overall survival: P = 0.021, postrecurrence survival: P = 0.069). Conclusions: Although our retrospective analysis was very preliminary, we could propose the hypothesis that patients with stage I recurrent ovarian cancer who undergo FSS may not show poorer survival rates than patients who receive radical surgery.

Recurrent Ovarian Cancer; Fertility-Sparing Surgery; Overall Survival; Postrecurrence Survival;

Kajiyama, H. , Shibata, K. , Mizuno, M. , Yamamoto, E. , Kawai, M. , Nagasaka, T. and Kikkawa, F. (2013) Postrecurrence Clinical Outcome of Patients with Stage I Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Who Underwent Fertility-Sparing Surgery Compared to Those with Radical Surgery. Surgical Science, 4, 118-124. doi: 10.4236/ss.2013.41022.